Why're you getting turned on by an animated character. That just weird.

Anyway, I think this is gross. What about the female gamers that are playing this game. When I saw this scene. I felt weird. I felt awkward and it left me wondering why it didn't get an "Adult" rating. It just was not classy or romantic in any way. It was just too much. I hope next time. The developers acknowledge that females will be playing their game and they would find an alternate option that would appeal to us.

"The developers acknowledge that females will be playing their game and they would find an alternate option that would appeal to us".

Let me propose an alternative here :)

Ok lets say the new tomb raider game has lara "romance" someone and all the scenes focus on the man partaking in the act and we get all these amazing shots of muscles and other areas women find attractive... And 0% focus on Lara...

I bet you wouldn't be against that right?

Oh and how is it weird to find an animated character attractive? You've called atleast 98%... NEIGH!!! 99% of the human population weird.

It really keeps with the "bro-tastic" themes of the game, though that should really be a condemnation of the writing, not of sex in video games. Mika seems to just generally dislike the presence of sex in any setting other than a dark, real world bedroom in which the participants cannot see each other.

....just to be clear, despite my distaste for the main characters it's still one of my favorite games of the year.

But it's not weird because you are playing as a male character. If you want to pretend the playable character is female then fair enough but I think that's weirder every time he speaks or shows his hairy arms covered in tatts.

Why do ladies get hung up over these things. When I'm playing tomb raider I accept I'm playing a female character and if Lara acts in a feminine way then so be it, I don't find that odd.

Obviously mass effect had the best solution but that's an awful lot of work for most developers and in the case of far crys story wouldn't have really worked without having two vastly different stories for each gender seeing as friends and girlfriend supporting characters are in there driving the story.

If people made things while thinking "what if this group of people is offended by this" then we'd have cut and paste stories. Also, out of context with the rest of the game, it seems out of place, but if one actually plays the game it makes perfect sense. Your character starts off as a normal rich, Caucasian college guy, and begins to slip more and more into madness as the game progress. This isn't just mindless sex, and I'm amazed that people are more freaked out over the sex rather than the fact she just shoved a knife into his heart. Shows how skewed priorities are in american minds. Sex is worst than murder.

An animated character can be porn like anything else. Whether it is an animated video game character, picture in a smut magazine, or a video on a screen, they are all artificial images that are not really there. Your mind is doing most of the work. But guess what...when you are having real sex with a real person your mind is doing most of the work there too.

@Mika - Men are simple, we like beauty and food. Men respond to visual stimulation. Be it a real woman or a picture, men respond to beauty. For a real woman it's a simple formula. 1)Keep the weight off + 2)Doll yourself up just a little = 3)Watch all the men around you get dumber and do all kinds of dumb things for you that they wouldn't do before.

@deep_fried_bum_cake - I don't know if sex is never classy but I know it is better when it is not classy.

First off, what is so wrong with sex anyway? Nobody ever bitches about gratuitous violence and killing, but once a chick flashes her tits on screen its OH MY GOD ....and WOMEN ARE THIS OR THAT....killing and war yeah, love no....great survival attiude. Look I know thats not love per say, and I know survival attitude isn't a necessity. My point is that stop taking it personally. This is a mature game and it's to be expected. Women want equal rights, well she showed her tits like he showd his in the game. Besides, people know that not all women are like that and that was of this ones own free will. That doesnt make all women like that. It just shows this particular individuals choice to sleep with the character. Calm down, sex is more a part of life than killing is so why hide it. IT'S NOT A BAD THING

First off: You're argument is ridiculous. If you play the game in it's entirety then you would know that nothing about it is "romantic" or "classy." Secondly: The animalistic nature of the sex fits perfectly within the feel of the game. They are on rock and dirt. She still has her skirt on. And she kills him afterwards. It's perfect for the game.

Females will just shut the hell up, play the game, and enjoy the story just like guys should if they're playing games where you control a male and there's a romance scene with another guy. I mean unless you want the guy character being with another guy...if you're into that sort of thing. Just one thing....IT'S A VIDEOGAME YOU DON'T HAVE TO PLAY IT AND IT WON'T DESTROY YOUR LIFE IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!

Well, because of Mika's stupidity, this has once again degraded into a bunch of dudes resorting to the old stand-by "why peoples like violence but no sex?"

....which is a ridiculous argument for so many reasons, one of them being that it's no less than a logical fallacy (tu quoque).

Sexuality, just like violence, is often inserted gratuitously into video games. The act's right to appear in our art does not automatically validate it's presence from a contextual perspective, but in the two instances it happens in this game, it actually makes contextual sense. That's what separates a simple depiction of sex from pornography.

Haven't seen it yet, but I don't see how it can be in the game without feeling unnecessary. Also I think most devs assume that most of the players will be male, while most females will go out to see twilight for the billionth time. Or maybe that's just my assumption. I don't know.

I don't understand why you think females will get upset over this? He's not raping her, there is not violence between them, and in several scenes before this *spoiler* she begs him to stay by saying she loves him*end spoiler*. It's not typical sex, but then again what is? Sex is sex, but I find it interesting that more people aren't up in arms about the murder,several scenes of torture and rape, genocide, drug and alcohol use, human trafficking, prostitution, animal killing, many forms of torture, dismemberment, and crawling out of a pit of innocent civilians that were systematically killed and burned. Yes, this sex scene is totally the problem.........it worries me that you think THIS is gross, but not when a guy is burned alive in front of a crowd of people in an animal cage in this game. nd I don't understand what an alternative would be? No sex? Sex with a man? So this means that only straight women will be offended by this? It seems during your argument about being offended, you're coming from a very narrow perspective.

it really pisses me off how some tits and arse gets ppl angry and picketing out side the local mayors office but all the stabbing shooting killing and drug use is completely left alone. I think if ppl are going to complain about the sex they have to complain about the violence too either that or just stfu about it all. I play games as an escape and a wind down from real life, if ppl cant see games as not real they need help.

It's freaking nuts that some people over react to the sex scene when there's been all sorts of killing in this game. Maybe the guy wants to get laid but can't and gets more frustrated when he saw that scene.

Can't really see the that one would argue against sexual content but not against violence. Sexual stuff is everyday-stuff. You experience it from day to day, whether you're a man or a women makes no difference. It also plays a major role in advertising, TV, movies, books, discussion - really, everywhere you look. Violence on the other hand is not - at least not in that drastic amount. The game deals with the problems of coming from a "normal" life and getting thrown into a violent hell where the protagonist is pratically forced to murder people and you complaing about a little sexual depiction?

So there's a scene where Brody is about to be homosexually raped and the would be rapist alludes to necrophilia and ends up being brutally killed in the same "intimate" POV, which raises no eyebrows but a fairly tame depiction of consensual sex sets tongues a wagging? Young people are so conservative these days, I'm 45, people my age are way less uptight about these things than 20something gaming bloggers.

I apologise on behalf of my agegroup as a lot of us seem to be namby pamby twats who talk/type before the think and end up spewing meaningless drivel across the internet. And alot of these gaming bloggers have no clue about games before the 360 yet they seem to think they're experts. I hate them.

Not sure it's a "sex scene" due to her wearing shorts, hmm... If it is a sex scene it failed for a couple of reasons.

1. Any connoisseur of adult entertainment (approx. 3/4 of the ppl. who posted coments here, that includes the ladies, don't front! LoL) knows there is ONLY one correct way to end a "POV sex scene" & that wasn't it...

That said I love when a woman speaks a foriegn language while we're "doin' it". Usually it's spanish but extra points if she speaks something I've never heard before! (Free tip ladies!) Most guys love this so if you speak another language that's when you should use it! You could curse a guy out in another language, we don't care that's even hotter!